A win for Mr. Turner, the only film here not to receive a nomination from the CDG, would be the second for a Mike Leigh production.
This year, 60 films received nominations across 24 categories, and with the exception of Glen Campbell…I’ll Be Me, I’ve seen them all.
If best animated film, best documentary feature, and best director begat the year’s most conspicuous snubs, best sound mixing boasts the most controversial nomination: Interstellar.
Last year we accurately predicted 23 out of 24 Oscar categories.
Five respectable, if not especially revelatory, nominees; no controversy.
The Academy’s ever-mercurial music branch turned on to Desplat like a light switch starting with 2006’s The Queen, and in just 10 years, he’s racked up eight nominations.
Yes, the photo above is not of Edward Snowden, subject of Laura Poitras’s Citizenfour.
This year’s slate gives us PSTD-drenched flashbacks to the legion of fanboys defending the honor of their beloved caped crusaders in our various comments sections.
In dreams, too, Laura Dern wouldn’t also be passing through.
Us in 2014 about the best production design Oscar, following a string of missed guesses in this category: “We don’t know shit.”
For practitioners of the form, like Daniel Mindel, who’s never shot a film digitally, the choice here will be between The Grand Budapest Hotel or Ida.
Many wondered why Foxcatcher’s Steve Carell didn’t attempt a campaign in supporting actor, which is where BAFTA slotted him.
In the aftermath of the Charlie Hebdo terrorist attacks, Timbuktu’s lucid depiction of innocents rightfully, righteously fighting fundamentalism from within feels especially eye-opening.
Yes, gay panic-prone Mark Schultz, that was a joke at your expense.
This year’s nominees are all, almost conspicuously, united by their deployment of the canniest of distancing effects.
Much of the category manages to avoid spinning out into its usual twin pitfalls of snark and self-satisfied solemnity.
Existentialist angst has never been so obsessively on the mind of the AMPAS voter.
The critics have spoken. The guilds have spoken. The Golden Globes have spoken.
This is a complete list of our predicted winners at the 2014 Academy Awards.
Like anyone who’s been covering what’s become, as the party line goes, “the closest Best Picture race in recent memory,” I’ve gone through many mental rewrites of this top-prize breakdown.